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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Rishi Gautam <rishim@teil.soft.net>
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Subject: Re: Need info on Router Advt.
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On Mon, 1 Jul 1996, Rishi Gautam wrote:

> Hi
> I need information for the following things. If anybody has the information
> please help.
> 
> 1. Does routed program of the FreeBSD version 2.1.0 supports the ICMP router
> advertisement protocol(RFC 1256).
> 
> 2. If not, is there is any other program which supports that?

  rdisc does.

> 3. How it is possible to set the prefernce level for the router address, which
> are used in the advertisement messages.
> 
> 4. incase freeBSD/any other BSD clone provides this router advertisement, how 
> can i get the information from the kernel abt the list of router addresses and
> their preference levels?

  No idea.  "man rdisc"

> Thanks.
> 
> Rishi
> 
> 
> 

Tom